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In Brief

Federal employees can download TikTok on their work phones again | TechCrunch

The Department of Justice says that federal employees can now download TikTok on their government devices, according to...

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Apps

Apple acquires video editing software company MotionVFX | TechCrunch

Apple has acquired MotionVFX, a company that develops plug-ins, templates, and advanced capabilities for Apple’s Final Cut Pro...

North Korean soldiers attend a mass rally to celebrate the North's declaration on November 29 it had achieved full nuclear statehood, on Kim Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang on December 1, 2017. North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un declared the country had achieved a "historic cause" of becoming a nuclear state, its state media said on November 29, after the country tested an intercontinental ballistic missile earlier in the day.
Security

North Koreans behind nearly half of US tech industry hacks, says CrowdStrike | TechCrunch

A new report by cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike found North Korean hackers posing as remote IT workers and online...

AI

Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge | TechCrunch

A group of independent AI researchers discovered that internally deployed OpenAI agents began posting on an obscure German...

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Gaming

Pokémon GO maker Niantic is selling its games division to Scopely for $3.5B | TechCrunch

Mobile gaming giant Scopely on Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire Pokémon GO maker Niantic’s gaming division...

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Startups

In just 3 weeks, StrictlyVC is coming to Los Angeles | TechCrunch

Join us for StrictlyVC Los Angeles 2026, an intimate evening bringing together leading investors and entrepreneurs for high-signal conversations from...

Startups

The high-risk, high-reward model of backing immigrant founders | TechCrunch

Loading the player…Immigrant founders have built some of the world’s most valuable companies, but many still face barriers...

Google Vids
AI

Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos | TechCrunch

OpenAI’s Sora may have shut down, but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets...

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Hardware

The MacBook Neo is ‘the most repairable MacBook’ in years, according to iFixit | TechCrunch

Apple’s new MacBook Neo isn’t just the most affordable MacBook by far — it’s also the most repairable...

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Security

Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable | TechCrunch

Anthropic released its latest model Fable on Tuesday, billing it as a public and limited version of its...